A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.278

v2.c19.s3.t2.278

No. 454. Kaṇha (the Kṛṣṇa of the legend) is inconsolable at the death of his son. Then his brother Ghaṭa pretends to be mad, and runs through the town, crying: "Give me the hare!" Kaṇha asks him what it is he wants. Ghaṭa replies: "The hare in the moon." Kaṇha shows him that he is asking an impossibility, but Ghaṭa declares that he too is asking an impossibility when he mourns for his son who is long dead, and wants to have him back. These words cure Kaṇha of his paternal grief.³